The stocky
stone building is still used as the Catholic church (Santa Maria) and dominates the central
square of the neighbourhood. However, unsympathetic local politicians have
ensured most of its grounds have been lost (1970s?), now occupied by the council
supermarket, Tansaş.

Creation of
the central square of Bornova, around 1970, with
the Catholic church in the background, one of the properties that lost land in the
process.